Chapter 7

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Nie Jia walked in with Huo Qing. At some distance, he saw an easel kept under the tree beside the lake. A little boy was sitting behind the easel. Huo Yun, with her long hair and slender waist, sat on a wicker chair, with black tea by her side. On her leg was a novel that had been half read by her husband. There was a trace of melancholy in her eyebrows, but she had no expression on her face, as if she were a noble princess trapped with everything in the gem tower, filled with unknown sadness.

“Mom, Uncle is back, and he also brought back a guest.” Ye Xiao June who was busy painting the canvas, glanced up.

Huo Yun raised her eyes and clenched her fingers tightly. She naturally recognized Yan Su, the brain surgery expert who was quite famous abroad. It was just that Huo Yun had invited experts who were far more famous than Yan Su, only to feel helpless about her husband’s condition. In these years, she really hadn’t considered this young doctor.

The Huo family’s villa was very large, but there were not many people. Apart from the housekeepers and medical staff; the Huo brother and sister, Ye Xiaojue and Ye Shuming, who has been sleeping for many years, lived here quietly. Except for them, there were no others in the villa.

Nie Jia simply greeted Huo Yun and then was accompanied by the medical staff to check on Ye Shuming’s situation. Huo Qing wanted to follow him in, but was dragged back by Huo Yun.

“Brother…” Huo Yun clutched Huo Qing’s hand nervously.

“Relax, he is sure.” Huo Qing said to his sister.

Huo Yun suddenly clenched her hand without saying a word, even breathing carefully.

He shouldn’t have said this to Huo Yun before Ye Shuming opened his eyes. After all, Huo Yun had hoped too many times only for it to be smashed, in the past four years. But, Huo Qing believed this still young Dr. Yan from his heart, even if he couldn’t tell why. He felt that there were some images of Dr. Yan hidden in his memory, but he couldn’t remember.

Nie Jia looked at Ye Shuming’s situation in the room, and asked the medical staff some questions, then fell silent. No further action was taken, but he leaned back lazily on the back of the chair and looked at an oil painting on the wall.

The painting was a ghost orchid with a crooked posture. Although the composition was beautiful, it did not match the jade frame it was inlaid with, just like a handful of dirt in a jewel box.

And this ghost orchid was the one painted by Meng Qian, which Jiang Yang bought for 3 million and gifted to Huo Yun.

Huo Yun was a painter and had a great reputation, which was comparable to Ye Shuming’s position in the literary circle. Such a painting was like graffiti by kindergarten children in front of a real painter like her. But, Huo Yun had kept it like a precious and important painting. It was framed and placed in her husband’s room.

“Doctor Yan likes this picture?” Huo Qing pushed the door open and saw Nie Jia looking at the oil painting on the wall.

Nie Jia’s fingertips rubbed against his lower lip, and his soft lips brightened in a moment. Huo Qing’s eyes dilated, and there was an ache in his heart. He wanted to rub the doctor’s slender fingertips, wanted to touch his soft hair, and even wanted to kiss his colorful thin lips. Huo Qing’s throat moved slightly, and it took a lot of effort to suppress his inexplicable urge against the doctor.

“Is there anything in this painting that I would like?” Nie Jia, unaware of Huo Qing’s heated gaze, kept looking at the painting.

Huo Qing smiled, “It’s really not a good painting. It’s just that Shuming’s favorite ghost orchid was painted. Xiao Yun was very happy and hung it.”

“It turned out to be like this…” Nie Jia murmured.

Ye Shuming and Huo Yun’s marriage was not publicized, no one knew that Ye Shuming was Huo Qing’s brother-in-law, no one knew that he became vegetative, and no one knew that he liked ghost orchids. It just happened that Meng Qian drew a ghost orchid, and it happened to be bought by Jiang Yang and given to Huo Yun, who happened to be pleased with it because it was Ye Shuming’s favorite. All this was just a coincidence, or Jiang Yang’s and Meng Qian’s protagonists’ halo.

“Dr. Yan, how is my husband’s situation?” Huo Yun came in, her eyes uneasy.

Nie Jia was still sitting idly on the chair, and said lightly: “The patient is in good health and can undergo surgery at any time.”

Huo Yum slightly pursed her lips tightly. “Dr. Yan, I meant, what’s the success rate of the operation?” She was still a little bit hopeful for the young doctor in front of her.

Nie Jia gave her a bright smile: “100%.”

Last night, Nie Jia had contacted the First Hospital to arrange the operation. Although Huo Yun did not trust him, Huo Qing was there, and soon arranged for Ye Shuming to be admitted to the hospital. In fact, it was not necessary to go through the procedure of surgery, but this was just an ordinary world. Nie Jia needed a relatively believable cover-up.

Huo Qing accompanied Huo Yun to wait outside the operating room. Huo Yun felt a cold sweat on her forehead.

The operation took 16 hours, and it was already early in the morning when the operation ended. Nie Jia did not expect that because the world had so few adjustable abilities, it took 16 hours and over taxation of his abilities to fully repair Ye Shuming’s brain trauma and his four-year muscular injury (developed due to lying in bed for 4 years). The process of power overdraft was extremely painful for Nie Jia, not to mention that Yan Su’s body couldn’t carry so much energy that wasn’t in the body. The end of the operation also meant that Nie Jia had survived a torture.

“Dr. Yan!” As soon as the door of the operating room opened, Huo Yun stood up nervously.

Nie Jia looked pale and gasped weakly, leaning against the wall with one hand. “He will wake up in the near future without accident, just take him to the ward for a good rest.”

Huo Qing’s heart was swallowed into his stomach as soon as he finished speaking, but Nie Jia’s hand slipped and he fell on the ground. Huo Qing quickly grabbed his waist and said in a deep voice: “I will send you back to rest.”

Nie Jia hung on to Huo Qing, half dead, and he didn’t want to be brave, so he nodded. He had never hugged Huo Qing before and now, he hugged him directly, regardless of the hospital’s regulations.

Huo Qing left without saying a word. Hu>o Yun looked at her elder brother’s back with strange eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. Soon Ye Shuming was pushed out, and she didn’t have time to think of other people and quickly followed into the intensive care unit.

Nie Jia clutched Huo Qing’s back weakly. He was a little bit resistant to being so intimate with a person, but he couldn’t even resist Huo Qing with his full strength, let alone the fact that Nie Jia didn’t have even a little bit of strength left right now. He secretly raised his head and looked at Huo Qing’s face from the side. After a while, he quietly released his hand and leaned exhaustedly on Huo Qing’s shoulder and fell asleep.

Huo Qing did not send this person back to the Jiang house, but ordered his assistant to drive back to the lakeside villa and brought him into his room. He undressed the youth and gently wiped the sweat on his neck. He seemed exhausted. He didn’t have the slightest sign of waking up when he was brought along by him. At this time, he fell asleep deeper and his head dipped on the pillow. Lying in bed and curling himself up just like when they first met at the Jiang house.

He seemed very insecure.

Huo Qing quietly stood by the bed. The young man’s sleepy face made him look like a lonely child. After watching for a long time, Huo Qing frowned slightly. He felt very bad.

Early in the morning, the next day, the young man in bed did not wake up and was still asleep. He had just turned over not long ago, otherwise Huo Qing almost doubted whether he had fainted.

“Boss, Miss’s call.” The assistant came in with a mobile phone and lowered his voice as much as possible while talking to Huo Qing. Since the boss came back from the hospital, Dr. Yan had been sleeping all day, and the boss had been staying by the bed. He did not even eat or drink. Huo Qing reached for the phone without saying a word, and heard Huo Yun’s excited voice crying, “Brother… Shuming’s finger moved just now! It was not my illusion, Shuming’s finger really moved!”

“Didn’t Su Su say that he will wake up in the near future? Take good care of him and pay attention to yourself too.” Huo Qing whispered.

Su Su? The assistant stood behind him and looked at the sleeping doctor on the bed, his eyes surprised. Not only was Dr. Yan’s title suddenly so intimate, even when he heard that Mr. Ye was about to wake up, the boss’ response was too calm.

Huo Qing hung up the phone after saying a few words to Huo Yun, and then threw the phone to his assistant, saying indifferently: “Don’t bother me again.”

The assistant nodded and turned around immediately.

Nie Jia slept for more than sixty hours. He laid in bed for more than two days. Although some dizziness rose, his body had enough rest. He opened his eyes and looked at the bright surroundings. There were no curtains in this strange bedroom. The golden afterglow from outside the window fell on his eyes, reflecting Nie Jia’s extremely shallow pupils which looked like transparent gemstones.

It was quiet all around. It was already dusk. The light in the room was unclear. Most people who woke up to such a sunset would always develop some loneliness and feel abandoned by the world. Nie Jia instead enjoyed the feeling of loneliness.

He straightened up in bed and comfortably stretched lazily like a cat. Halfway through, a low voice suddenly sounded beside him: “Woke up?”

Nie Jia thought he was alone and was taken aback. He pulled his hands back and covered up his waist, and turned his head with a frightened expression. He saw Huo Qing sitting beside him, in the dim light, looking at him thoughtfully.

“You slept for a long time.” Huo Qing said.

Nie Jia’s tense nerves relaxed. He apparently fell asleep for nearly three days, but he still seemed to be in a state of mental distress. He said, “Is Ye Shuming awake?”

“Not yet.” Huo Qing’s eyes remained unchanged, and he kept looking at Nie Jia.

Nie Jia didn’t notice it. Hearing that Ye Shuming hadn’t awakened, he was a little disappointed. He hadn’t awakened. Of course, he couldn’t open his mouth and shamelessly ask Huo Qing for the shares. He could only wait. Qin Yiran hadn’t won the reclamation project and was anxious to collect funds. Thinking of this, Nie Jia remembered he broke his phone when he was in Yunnan. Qin Yiran couldn’t even contact him now.

“Mr. Huo, can I borrow your phone?” Nie Jia asked.

Huo Qing didn’t move, only called the assistant to come in and gave Nie Jia his mobile phone.

Nie Jia logged into his mailbox and found that there was indeed no mail from Qin Yiran. He was about to log out and return the phone, but suddenly felt shrouded in a shadow, and then was overthrown by an irresistible force.

“Dr. Yan, where have I seen you before?” Huo Qing held Nie Jia’s slender wrist and pressed the man directly onto the bed. His gaze pierced Nie Jia’s eyes like a knife with a burning temperature. He changed his previous gentlemanly and courteous behaviour and aggressively & directly interrogated the person under his arms, looking just like a hungry lion.

“No. We haven’t met before. Please let me go.” Nie Jia struggled a bit, but Huo Qing’s hands were as hard to shake as a steel casting. He couldn’t help but lean his head away from Huo Qing’s eyes.

Huo Qing didn’t hear him, only saw his little guilty gesture, and couldn’t help sneer. “Really? But when you first appeared, it gave me a very strange feeling. I feel that I have seen you somewhere.” Especially when you are sleeping.

“Maybe it was a previous life.” Nie Jia teased. He was not wrong in saying that. Didn’t he meet Shi in their previous life? Nie Jia remembered that Huo Qing was looking strangely at him this time, and he felt even more panicked. He quickly said: “Mr. Huo, I used a scalpel for sixteen hours and my wrist hurts. Could you please let go? “

Huo Qing frowned and immediately let go. “Sorry, I didn’t mean it.”

Nie Jia propped up his body and sat up halfway, rubbing. the wrist hurt by Huo Qing. He lowered his head to reveal a clean and white neck.

Huo Qing wondered if Yan Su didn’t want to see him or was just avoiding looking at his eyes.

This weird feeling was even worse. Huo Qing was upset and a little uneasy.

“You slept for a long time, are you hungry? The kitchen staff has already prepared meals for you.” Huo Qing said softly.

Nie Jia lowered his head and did not speak. Huo Qing got up and said, “I will wait for you. Come down after washing.”

When Huo Qing went out, Nie Jia was completely relieved and fell back in a daze on the bed, feeling hungry after a while. Nie Jia was going to wash. When he lifted the quilt, he found that he was wearing a men’s shirt that was obviously bigger than his size.

“Who changed my clothes?” Nie Jia frowned.

The system raised its hands to answer: [It was the Director! Reporting: The director secretly touched your face while changing your clothes. He touched it several times!】

Nie Jia retracted his foot back to the bed. He was silent for a long time, and the system asked: [Mr. Nie, are you not happy?】

“What do I have to be happy about?” Nie Jia said restlessly.

The system said: [You like the Director, and the Director is pleased with you. Isn’t it a happy thing?】

Nie Jia gritted his teeth and said angrily: “How do you know if I like him? You peeped at me!”

The system was taken aback, and quickly explained: [I didn’t mean it. I just accidentally discovered your subconscious during the routine testing while you were in coma.]

Nie Jia lifted the quilt angrily, went into the bathroom with a gloomy look. He turned the water on to take a shower and ignored KK.

The system shook his head and didn’t quite understand Nie Jia’s current state of mind. He asked cautiously: [Mr. Nie, I assure you that I will not disclose your feelings to the director. But, you actually know that the director likes you?】

Nie Jia didn’t speak anymore, he always knew about his feelings for Shi Chen.

He and Shi Chen met each other when they were young, when Nie Jia’s heart was still naive. He could feel the affection that Shi Chen had hidden in his eyes. However, it had been too long. Nie Jia clearly realized that the present his and Shi Chen’s likes were different. At least in the past, Nie Jia could never hold a person’s hand and ignore it.

Shi Chen was now involved in this world as Huo Qing, and had no memory, but when the data would be integrated with his consciousness, after this world was over, he would clearly find that he had not been the one who moved Nie Jia.🔻

The scene must be hard to see, Nie Jia thought secretly.

After taking a bath, Nie Jia felt free of worries. It was already dark outside, but the lights were not turned on. Nie Jia stood on the floating stairs and saw Huo Qing standing by the window with his back to him. A little red dot was seen. He was smoking, and looking at his silent back, he seemed lonely.

Nie Jia was stunned, and finally, he did not call Huo Qing, so he went to the kitchen.

Three days later, Ye Shuming was awake and Huo Yun did a full-body examination for Ye Shuming in the First hospital. Finding that he had no problems, she took him directly to the lakeside villa. The case of Ye Shuming’s recovery shocked the doctors and professors of the First Hospital but this person was the son-in-law of the Huo family. No news would be disclosed, so even if it was the most precious and surprising case, the hospital did not dare take it for seminars or presentations without explicit permission.

Although Ye Shuming was awake, he had laid down for four years after all. The muscle degeneration caused during this time required a period of rehabilitation to recover. At this time, it was difficult for him to stand up. Huo Yun simply pushed him back with a wheelchair.

The sun shone brightly on the day they returned. Huo Yun got out of the car with crying eyes and held Ye Shuming. She hadn’t informed Huo Qing in advance, and had hurried back to give him a surprise. When she pushed Ye Shuming into the hall, Huo Qing was talking quietly with Dr. Yan, and there were two policemen standing beside him.

~It means that after Nie Jia passes through and Shi Chen integrates his memory from this world, he would realize that the one who was involved with Nie Jia and the one who interacted with Nie Jia was Huo Qing. Not Shi Chen himself. That is to say that even if Huo Qing is a part of Shi Chen’s consciousness, he is not Shi Chen himself, but just a part.🔺

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